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Larsson shot hilance “You have no idea how it is The gods gave you a beautiful little huive me ”

Nodding, Blayde pulled his hand away and looked back down at his own screen They were about to enter a wor into it would require his close attention for a while Larsson kept quiet beside hi over the bounty Tarr had put on his head It was a good thing Blayde was piloting this trip—Larsson ay too furious and upset to navigate the tricky maneuvers it would take to launch into a wormhole

Wormholes were space ano two separate locations The particular worh would propel thealactic space Unlike stargates, the wormholes weren’t permanent Their connections lasted only for a short tiht hours, and they collapsed if too h the in was sh it still took almost a full day of travel time

Once they passed through the woralaxy and on their way hoone for over three weeks on this trip, delivering a prisoner to the authorities on Earth Blayde had been bitching alet back hos ’

Larsson knehat he really wanted to check on—his mate, Ryan Ryan had decided not to accoht up bad memories of the last time he’d been there, when Ryan and Nikolai were almost killed Earth was, of course, Ryan’s hoo home for a visit, but for now, he preferred to stay back on Lycanus 3 until Blayde returned

Since Blayde pretty reed to let Ryan stay behind, even though it was literally painful for hi the effects of not being with his own h they had only imprinted on each other and hadn’t yet officiallyharder and harder to take a deep breath, especially on planets like Earth, where the oxygen levels were not as rich as on Lycanus 3

Blayde executed the complicated maneuver that launched them into the worht hours, there would be nothing s occasionally The colanced back over at Larsson

“Despite what you say, Tarr Bonnet is not exactlysomebody I’d kick out of , of course I value my nuts too much to even think about another man now ”

“Tarr’s gorgeous enough—the asshole,” Larssonagreed “But doesn’t he just know it?” Along with his identical twin, Taz Bonnet, who had recently taken their cousin Kyle as his ly ad erians stood an average of seven feet tall, and the gods only kne hed Tarr was perhaps a few inches over seven feet tall, and built like a god Larsson felt like a kid when he stood beside him

Tarr’s chest and shoulders were broad and raceful in his movements and he had a deadly charm, when he chose to exert it, that could win anyone over Except for Larsson—he was far fro won over He cursed the day their paths had crossed

Like all Tygerians, Tarr had the sexy black tiger stripes running just under his golden brown skin, like so and curly and a shade soold His eyes, like manyof his people’s, were catlike, slanted and a rich shade of eht, sinfully so, and he kne to use his looks to gethe wanted

From the first moment Larsson had seen him, he’d fallen completely, irrevocably and resentfully in love with him Now all Larsson had to do was find a way to hide it froleefully and with ht, break his heart into a thousand pieces Their relationship had been contentious right froerian, especially one like Tarr, who had a huge bounty on his head fro in love slaves He didn’t want to becurse on their family had affected his brother and his cousins He had no wish to join their ranks Really, he only wanted to be left alone

Admittedly, the bounty on Tarr’s head was only froerians refused to accept their authority and always had The troubleso for Larsson was that he suspected Tarr was an outlaw every bit as ruthless and out of control as his own grandfather had been

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ld Gunnar Balenescu had been a voyager, like Larsson He had traveled across the galaxies transporting their planet’s pri of aluminum, and in the manufacture of the transports like the one Larsson and Blayde were on now The mines on Lycanus 3 had becoeria Gunnar had been one of these early voyagers, ferrying any kind of bauxite, as well as other cargo, including hualaxy